Mass Effect Director Casey Hudson on Humanoid Origin

Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson left the University of Alberta with a bachelor’s degree in 1998 and soon found himself creating 3D art for a game called MDK2. He stayed at Edmonton-based developer BioWare for the next sixteen years, serving as project director on the licensed RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the beloved sci-fi trilogy that followed it. Today, Hudson’s working on an all-new game at Humanoid Origin, the studio he founded in 2021. We spoke via Zoom last spring. Edited by Elijah Beahm. Music by Christy Carew. Art by Audrey Estok.